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Masterclass: My Weird Life with Amber Dawn: a workshop of weird approaches to personal narrative writing

Sunday, Oct. 19, 2025
12:00pm to 2:00pm

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Organized by: LitFest

Oct.
19

Invite experimentation and spontaneity into your writing practice with My Weird Life. This writing workshop is designed for memoir, narrative poetry and autofiction writers, though it can be adapted to any form of personally-rooted writing. Writers in all stages of their practice are welcome.

The workshop structure includes generative freewriting prompts, short sample readings from Amber Dawn’s body-of-work, craft mini-lectures and discussion. Space is limited to 20 writers and registration is mandatory. Come with a notebook, laptop or other writing device and be ready to do some outside-of-the box writing.

About the facilitator:

Amber Dawn has authored six books—two novels, three poetry collections and a hybrid memoir—and co-edited three community-driven anthologies. Her body-of-work explores queer identity, systemic trauma-informed cultural production and sex work justice—themes drawn from her own experiential knowledge base. As a facilitator, Amber Dawn has over 15 years of experience designing trauma-informed, experimental, fantastic and lower-barriers creative writing workshops.

To reserve space in this workshop, please email our Ticket Coordinator, Cait Yaga at events@litfestalberta.org.